Queer Divergence: Consort of Fire, marketing and differential queerness/es
Image credit: Jordan McDonald, UnSplash. A time-lapse image of a raindrop falling into a pool of water that reflects the colours of a rainbow. With thanks to Elizabeth Bear, Devin Singer, and Fade Manley. This is an essay about queerness, fiction, and marketing: about queer receptions and queer readings in our cultural moment. It’s an essay that starts with Kit Rocha’s Consort of Fire, but it…
I'm eager for other people to read Meredith Mooring's Redsight
Perhaps one of them will be able to explain to me what it is I just read. But first! If you enjoy these posts and want to keep seeing more of them, consider subscribing via Patreon or as a free (or paid) subscriber here at WordPress. 95% of my posts are freely available – and they’re going to stay that way! – but getting paid to write them makes it much more likely that I, you know, actually…
61. A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford, and some administrative updates
In this post: a review of A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford; moving off Substack to WordPress; ongoing efforts to Plan What I’m Talking About. Cover art for A River of Golden Bones A.K. Mulford, A River of Golden Bones. New York: HarperCollins. 2023. I’d never encountered A.K. Mulford’s work before picking up A River of Golden Bones for review, though a little research reveals that…